Did you try to bzip2 the DVD using -9 options to have something to compare ?
On Dec 4, 2007 6:35 PM, Ruslan Sivak <rsivak at istandfor.com>
wrote:> I just downloaded solaris. They have two versions, the split DVD that
> comes with two 1.2GB zipped chunks and an exe which is 1.2GB but
> uncompresses to the full 2.5+GB. I found some info on them here:
> http://www.nosltd.com/nosso.html
>
> Any idea how they achieve such great compression? Looks like they're
> using a proprietary algorithm and don't offer any downloads. Also
looks
> like it's windows only. Is there a linux/open source alternative out
> there?
>
> Russ
>
>
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